Folding lounge chair

Abstract

A folding lounge chair easily folded from an open seating position to a flat planar configuration, including an outer ring frame and a cover attached to the outer ring frame to form a back rest and seat. The folding lounge chair features an arrangement of V-shaped legs pivotally attached to the outer ring frame and a rod that releasably secures the V-shaped legs to hold the assembly in the open seating position.

Description

This invention relates to a lounge chair, more particularly relates to a lightweight folding lounge chair, which is capable of being easily folded from its open seating position to a flat planar and has a cover that can easily be removed, washed, and replaced by the customer.PRIOR ART OF THE INVENTIONFolding lounge chairs are well known in prior art and are used both indoors and outdoors. Key features are comfort to sit for long periods of time, ease of folding and compactness for portability. However conventional folding lounge chairs demonstrate shortcomings, which significantly hinder their more widespread acceptance and use. Particularly well-known example is the folding butterfly chair, which serves a similar function and market as the present invention. However the butterfly chair suffers from being uncomfortable to sit in for long periods of time as it has very little back support and the sling design of the covers causes the user's legs to feel pinched. Also, because the but...

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Problems solved by technology

However conventional folding lounge chairs demonstrate shortcomings, which significantly hinder their more widespread acceptance and use.

However the butterfly chair suffers from being uncomfortable to sit in for long periods of time as it has very little back support and the sling design of the covers causes the user's legs to feel pinched.

Also, because the butterfly chair's canvas covers are supported in only four places, the chair's covers have a tendency to tear at stress points.

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